[Bf-funboard] Is there a mesh "strain" modifier?

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

Not sure what to call this, but on a few occasions I've wanted to do 
something akin to pulling the end of a fishing rod with my mesh.

For example, starting with a single edge, subdivide 10x. If I now grab 
an end vertex, only it moves. What I want would be that the movement was 
distributed along the edges, so that the far end didn't move, and those 
in the middle move proportionately, producing a curve.

Of course in the actual model examples, the mesh is normally more 
complicated than this! For example, a railway platform that I have 
extruded straight and now want to bend to match the path of the rails.

Is this something that can be done already?

Regards
Ruth

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